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Book SynopsisThe geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. This book explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race - created to overcome US colonial power - simultaneously privilege whiteness, typecast blackness, and silence charges of racism.
Trade ReviewCo-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016.
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Scripts of Blackness exposes the complexities derived from the intersections of race, class, and colonialism. This book can be used as a reference or complementary text for both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. It is a valuable contribution to American, Caribbean, Latino, and Latin American studies, and other related fields."--
The Journal of American History"A strong contribution to the burgeoning literatures on Puerto Rico, race, and nationalism. Highly recommended."--
Choice"
Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico is a testimony to the importance for anthropology of the
longue durée in one place. . . . Godreau's writing flows easily, as she details each thread of her complicated analysis in terms that make the book accessible and of interest to a wide audience."--
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"An invaluable contribution to historical and anthropological understandings of race on the island. . . . A much anticipated resource for Puerto Rican studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists writing on race and nationalism more broadly."--Arlene Dávila, author of
Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas
